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Nature abhors a vacuum, we used to have a media that would jump on the opportunity to expose scandals but now with the media in the pocket of the Executive branch, a foreign newspaper has jumped on the opportunity to expose the scandal and fill the vacuum.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.

Really good investigative reporters could make a lot of money right now, people want to know the truth about what is going on and it is becoming more and more evident that traditional news organizations are just shills for the government right now.

The difference between pigs and people is that when they tell you you're cured it isn't a good thing.

An intelligence contractor who disclosed a top-secret National Security Agency electronic surveillance program surfaced in Hong Kong on Sunday and suggested he planned to defect to China.

Edward Snowden, a cyber security technical specialist with the intelligence contractor Booz, Allen, Hamilton, appeared in a video posted by the British newspaper the Guardian, which first disclosed the spying program and other top-secret details of U.S. government electronic intelligence and surveillance.

Asked by Guardian correspondent Glenn Greenwald about his presence in Hong Kong and whether he plans to defect to China, Snowden said the assumption that “China is an enemy of the United States” is wrong. “It’s not,” he said.

Despite conflicts between the U.S. and Chinese governments, the peoples of the two countries do not care, he said. “We’re not at war, in armed conflict … we’re the largest trading partners,” he said.

Hong Kong, a Chinese province that was once a British colony, has a long tradition of free speech and has an “unfiltered Internet,” Snowden said.